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Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.

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In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.

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Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.

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The Dying Christian to His Soul (1712) -Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying! Stanza 1.

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Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose; Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?

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Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.

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Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.

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In death a hero, as in life a friend!

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To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.

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Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.

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Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use? Pride answers, 'Tis for mine For me kind nature wakes her genial power, Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower.

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Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be; thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.

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Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.

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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.

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No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.

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Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.

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Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue

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Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.

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Never elated while one man's oppress'd; Never dejected while another's blessed.

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